Goodreads Says: Join Dorothy and the Wonderful Wizard as they take Aunt Em and Uncle Henry on a fabulous tour of Oz. During their journey they encounter such amazing and amusing people as King Kleaver with his Spoon Brigade and Miss Cuttenclip of the land of paper dolls. But while Dorothy and her friends play, the wicked Nome King has joined forces with the terrible Whimsies, the fearsome Growleywogs, and the evil Phanfasms in a plot to capture the Emerald City. Will Dorothy's friends discover the danger before it's too late?
My Thoughts:
- I finally realized that these books are more about the land of Oz than they are about the stories and characters.
- I liked that this book was a grand tour of Oz and its unique and fantastic inhabitants. Baum had quite the imagination.
- I would love to hang out in Fuddlecumjig. I'd put puzzles together all day.
- It was fun that Aunt Em and Uncle Henry finally got to visit Oz.
- I liked how this one wrapped up. This story is setup to be last book in the series, but there are more books. I would have been more than satisfied if this had been the last Oz book.
Previous Oz Books
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Goodreads Says: The Eisner Award-winning creative team of Eric Shanower and Skottie Young bring you the best Oz series yet! Uncle Henry can't pay the mortgage, so he, Aunt Em and Dorothy must leave their Kansas home. Where can they go? To the Land of Oz, of course! Dorothy and the Wizard take Em and Henry on a grand tour, discovering knowledge pills and living paper dolls, solving living puzzles, suffering abuse from living kitchen utensils and drooling over living baked goods - but will anyone in Oz be left living after the Nomes attack, allied with the highly disagreeable Growleywogs? And when General Guph persuades the most evil race alive - the shape-shift ing Phanfasms of Mt. Phantastico-to join the Nome Army, have the Nomes bitt en off more than they can chew? COLLECTING: THE EMERALD CITY OF OZ 1-5
My Thoughts:
- I really love the art style of these books. The artists fits the tone and whimsy of the characters and books perfectly.
- The Whimsies freak me out! Ugh! Those big heads are things of nightmares.
- Baum had an amazing imagination. He created some interesting things.
- Why can't Toto talk? It bugs me. All the animals in Oz can talk except for Toto.
- I like that Aunt Em and Uncle Henry got to visit Oz. I wish they had a larger role in the book though.
- Not a lot of plot to this story. The characters mostly travel from one strange town to another, and the ending is weird, but it works.
- I love how they explained why this was the last Oz book. Ha!
